Medical students and interns are called "baby docs". As in "Ya man a whole herd of baby docs showed up to the code and stood next to the bed doing nothing but making it difficult for those of us on the code team to access the patient".
Watching the attending walk down the hall followed in single file by his senior resident, junior resident, intern, and 3 or 4 med students looks just like a mamma duck followed by her little baby ducks.
We also have "chicken feet" (in Wisconsin). The same thing is called a "turkey foot" in Minnesota. I don't even know the real name for them but you attach them to an IV line port, or to the end of a central line and it had 4 ports on it. Like if you have 4 different drips going into one.
"free wax job" for surgical tape removal after an epidural.
Q: "why is your patient in triage for a labor check?" A: "she is a FWB." (Fight with boyfriend and demanded he take her to the hospital to make him feel guilty)
"salad tongs" for forceps.
"knitting needle" for tool to rupture membranes.
"that's an FLK." (Funny looking kid)
"I need a foley." (I'm so busy that I haven't peed for 8 hours!)
"free wax job" for surgical tape removal after an epidural.
Q: "why is your patient in triage for a labor check?" A: "she is a FWB." (Fight with boyfriend and demanded he take her to the hospital to make him feel guilty)
"salad tongs" for forceps.
"knitting needle" for tool to rupture membranes.
"that's an FLK." (Funny looking kid)
"I need a foley." (I'm so busy that I haven't peed for 8 hours!)
"let's rock and roll!" (Time for delivery)
"TOBP" ( tired of being pregnant). Those poor women who keep coming in for false labor.
I work in the Midwest as well, we also use bubbler and Christmas trees. When I first graduated a lot of older nurses on the floor would say "so and so has a hep-lock to this site" and so I thought it was flushed with heparin, nope just a regular ole saline lock.
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GirlOnPfizer, BSN, RN
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We call that last one a manifold.